Develop your driving question
- can not be an answerable question
- try to connect it to the real world
Begin with the end in mind
- Develop the project idea
- Decide the scope of the project
- Select your standards
- Incorporate simultaneous outcomes
- Work through project design criteria
- Create the optimal learning environment
Plan the Assessment
- Align the products with your outcomes
- How will products allow students to demonstrate their learning?
- Have you developed/provided for multiple products?
- What are the artifacts of learning?
- Decide what you will focus on and assess
- You will have unintended outcomes and that's ok.
- Build rubrics
- Build your own
- Have students help you
- Have students design them
Map out the Assessment
-Organize the tasks and activities
-Decide how you will "launch" the project
-Gather your resources
-Draw out a "storyboard"?
DURING THE PROJECT
- conferences with groups and individuals
- mini lessons
- think about at home learning
- use of formative assessment to provide feedback
- bring in experts in content/process
- give student choice and provide for class meetings
- document the learning (photos, video, paper/pencil, blog)
- be reflective as a teacher, ask the students to do the same
AFTER THE PROJECT
- celebrate the successes AND failures
- reflect on what worked and what didn't at a personal level
- reflect on what worked and what didn't work at a class/organizational level
- take time to examine each other's work
- take a breath
Reprinted summary from "Project Based Learning Handbook" by the Buck Institute for Education
- can not be an answerable question
- try to connect it to the real world
Begin with the end in mind
- Develop the project idea
- Decide the scope of the project
- Select your standards
- Incorporate simultaneous outcomes
- Work through project design criteria
- Create the optimal learning environment
Plan the Assessment
- Align the products with your outcomes
- How will products allow students to demonstrate their learning?
- Have you developed/provided for multiple products?
- What are the artifacts of learning?
- Decide what you will focus on and assess
- You will have unintended outcomes and that's ok.
- Build rubrics
- Build your own
- Have students help you
- Have students design them
Map out the Assessment
-Organize the tasks and activities
-Decide how you will "launch" the project
-Gather your resources
-Draw out a "storyboard"?
DURING THE PROJECT
- conferences with groups and individuals
- mini lessons
- think about at home learning
- use of formative assessment to provide feedback
- bring in experts in content/process
- give student choice and provide for class meetings
- document the learning (photos, video, paper/pencil, blog)
- be reflective as a teacher, ask the students to do the same
AFTER THE PROJECT
- celebrate the successes AND failures
- reflect on what worked and what didn't at a personal level
- reflect on what worked and what didn't work at a class/organizational level
- take time to examine each other's work
- take a breath
Reprinted summary from "Project Based Learning Handbook" by the Buck Institute for Education